Robb Wolf’s 30 Day Paleo Transformation

Have you heard about the Paleo diet and were curious about how to get started? Or maybe you’ve been trying Paleo for a while but have questions or aren’t sure what the right exercise program is for you? Or maybe you just want a 30-day meal plan and shopping list to make things easier? Then Robb Wolf’s 30 Day Paleo Transformation is for you.

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Thanks for the episode, I will definitely check out the book.
In a way is what I am doing since I stopped smoking since Feb. I do with friends 30 days challenge every month and it’s lot of fun. Every month I try to do something difficult. It’s works wonders.

Also regarding coffee, I used to be very dependent on coffee, now I am in my 30 days ZERO coffee. Just to know, is almost like quitting smoking (easier) but I sleep WAY better, and my digestion is much better as well. Strangely enough I think I put some fat on the belly, and I think I did not change my eating…

I knew upon reading that The Flinch is just as *Paleo* as Wolf’s book, it’s just not about Paleo diet or exercise. It’s all about evolutionary mismatch: the flinch is leftover from a time when it was useful for survival, but now it just gets in the way of very undangerous but important things like quitting jobs we hate or talking to attractive women. A ery helpful book if you take some of the suggestions seriously.

Interesting episode. Listened last night when I woke up at 4AM AGAIN. I know I know Robb, I need to put up better light blocking curtains. On my list. Too bad you guys weren’t more boring to put me back to sleep. Wow I gotta read that book! I already used your idea about facing the temptation to re-wire my circuits today. It kind of reminds me of setting an intention in yoga. Since I can’t avoid unhealthy crap because it’s everywhere, I need to re-program my response. THANKS!!!! Hope it helps with the evil pastry devils that appear in the conference room at work, especially this time of year.

I also like your thing about how even the experts make mistakes. Duh! I use that when I teach physics. I prefer to not make my lectures perfect because it’s good for them to see me reason things through and sometimes even screw up in front of the class. It’s uncomfortable for me and them and may even make my evals worse, but I think it’s good for their learning. Thanks for reminding me this is even the case with the paleo experts. Since I’m pretty new to this I’m still learning so it’s ok to screw up occasionally as long as I learn from it.

It sounds like this auhtor has stumbled upon something much of the combat arms and SOF community already knew… in order to be hard, you need to live hard. Embrace the suck; and you break mental barriers. The first time you run a marathon its hard, next time its doable regardless of your physical capabilities… you effectivly push your perceived limit farther back each time until you encounter an actual physical limit.

To quote an old ranger: Hard times don’t last forever; but hard men do.

I noticed you mentioned something about how a specific tribe (Kalahari San Bushmen I believe) who have knowledge about arrogance, and how they have their own ways to avoid such behavior. Doing so stops them from potentially murdering somebody. Were you reading “Eating Christmas In The Kalahari” by Richard Borshay Lee?

Basically, no matter how successful of a hunter you are, tribe mates never admit this. Instead, they’ll do the exact opposite and say you did a shit job to keep you from getting a high head. But I think it’s not only to keep you level headed, but a way to keep pressure off you. When people say you are a “genius” or “the best”, that could put tremendous pressure on you to never fail, which is very unhealthy.

1)We are born and we die. No one cares, no one remembers, and it doesn’t matter.This is why we laugh.

2)Our pack, our children, our territory, the hunt, the kill, the battle. Health, full stomach, sharp weapons, your packmates next to you under the stars, seeing your child kill her first prey. These are important.
Anything else is needless complication, no matter how much fun it is.

The Main Thing I Liked: Lengthy discussion on the “framework” of the Paleo Diet/Lifestyle.

I find when I teach this stuff, the better I lay down the framework, the better understanding my clients have:

1) We are animals, we are designed to survive and procreate.
2) We are pack animals, we will emulate the behavior of the most dominant (alpha male/female) as well as the pack. There is a balance between pack and leader.
3) Our system is both delicate and robust. We will survive almost anything, but seemingly minute stimuli can dramatically alter our biochemistry. Hormesis, diet, sex, love, socialization (all things you’ve discussed before and especially in this podcast) are critical to our well being.

When I consistently lay down these ideas, I start to see the lights come on in clients. They get past the 20-30 years of headline intake:

Fat is bad
Blueberries are a superfood!
Yogurt is good for your gut!

and other vast amounts of bullshit if they buy into the framework.

Anyway, loved the podcast. More on the pack mentality would be fascinating to me. Weirdly, after years of studying Neuro Linguistic Programming, the thing that made this click for me wasn’t some arcane psychology or anthropology tome, but watching “The Dog Whisperer”.

I’m ashamed to say it, but Cesar Milan knows something about pack behavior. His whys/hows on how this applies to humans is way off IMO, but the pack stuff is gold.

Looking at pack behavior versus “rational man” is a bottomless topic that I’m really working on understanding, especially as it relates to changing client habits, and like you mentioned at the end of the podcast: our own habits.

ROBB WOLF, author of The Paleo Solution, is a former research biochemist and one of the world’s leading experts in Paleolithic nutrition. Wolf has transformed the lives of tens of thousands of people around the world via his top ranked iTunes podcast and wildly popular seminar series.